Australian artist, watercolorist and Quaker, who visited New Zealand briefly in 1875 and possibly into 1876. He was a clerk for the Melbourne branch of the Society of Friends 1876-1892.
Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[Hutt River 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: C-071-001
Description: A bend in the Hutt River, probably in its upper reaches near Taita, with partially bush-clad low hills around it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 366 x 587 mm
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[Hutt Valley 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-032
Description: A broad view of the Hutt Valley, with a dirt road dug into the side of a hill to the right (probably Normandale Hill road), the river meandering across the valley, a few scattered houses and the Wainuiomata Hill Road visible in the distance across the valley Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 267 x 388 mm
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :Hutt Valley - Wainuiomata Hill and Lowry Trig from...
Date: 1875
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-028
Description: The Belmont-Pauatahanui Road winding up a steep hill to the left, bush on the hill's flanks, the Hutt Valley with pasture (but no visible houses) and the Wainuiomata Hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 409 x 322 mm
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[Various artists] :B P calendar, 1983
Date: 1983
By: British Petroleum Company; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Babington, Thomas A, active 1860s; Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900; Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Packe, William, 1840?-1882
Reference: C-086-1983-03
Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: C D Barraud's White Terraces, ca 1880; William Fox's Onehunga, ca 1863; Thomas Babington's Sterndale, the home of C R Shaw at Totara Valley, 1860s; John Horsfall's Taita, 1875; J C Richmond's Lake Tennyson (later reidentified as Lake Guyon), ca 1869; William Packe's Huts on Mesopotamia, ca 1868. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[York Bay, Eastbourne 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-031
Description: Shows the Cridland house nestled amongst trees in the bay, looking towards the harbour and western hills Cridlands was built of cedar and prefabricated. It was the first house in York Bay. See volume on The Atkinson family in York Bay for further details Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 309 x 513 mm
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Biographical notes on artists
Date: [ca 1800-1940]
From: Clendon, Jane, fl 2005 : Manuscript of book Paintings and Drawings of Wellington and the Wairarapa 1840-1880
Reference: MS-Papers-8362-02
Description: Includes, draft notes with biographical information on New Zealand artists. Some of the notes have photographs of the artists attached. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[Taita, Lower Hutt 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-030
Description: Looking towards the Taita Gorge, with a road and houses in garden settings to the right, a stream in the foreground, cattle grazing, two dead trees and further houses in the centre, and hills behind Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 281 x 495 mm
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[Barraud, William Francis], 1850-1926 :Road to Wainui-o-Mata Valley, approx 1880-1900 /...
Date: 1880 - 1900
By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926; Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: C-142-002
Description: Shows a view of a clay road cut around bush-covered hills, towards a river valley beyond, with further hills in the distance. The work is initialled WFB at lower left, and notes on the verso therefore suggest the artist may be William Francis Barraud. However the subject, style and size have resemblance to work by John Atherton Horsfall (1819-1900), who painted in New Zealand in around 1875. Other Titles - Wainuiomata Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WFB Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 330 x 485 mm (sight)
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[Horsfall, John Atherton] 1819-1900 :[Mason's Gardens, Hutt Valley. 1875?]
Date: 1873 - 1877
By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900
Reference: B-079-029
Description: View probably from the Belmont Hills looking across a field towards the house and gardens of Thomas Mason, with the bush-clad Eastern Hutt hills (Wingate) rising beyond. Mature trees surround the house, beyond a post and rail fence. Thomas Mason, a Quaker, established his large gardens within a ring of native trees at Taita in the 1840s Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 317 x 416 mm